This is a list of STARTALK accepted definitions of terms based on what is commonly used in language learning programs. The purpose of the glossary is to develop a consensus in usage when STARTALK programs describe their program design and content. Glossar ...

Occidental College Integrating Language, Culture and Content is designed to support teachers in all phases of their careers, leaders of professional development and university faculty responsible for teacher education. The workshop showcases the standards ...

Stanford University School of Education California Foreign Language Project (CFLP) This series of e-learning modules is intended to provide professional developers with a model, resources and practical strategies for developing teacher leaders, principall ...

University of California, Berkeley This online workshop is based on an on-site workshop about the use of the target language in the Chinese language classroom. The content of the workshop will be focused on exploring the immersion strategies for the effec ...

University of California, Los Angeles These two self-paced online tutorials are designed for teachers of world and heritage languages. As you complete the first module, you will gain a better understanding of important differences between heritage languag ...

Introduction: This menu is intended to help STARTALK Program Directors identify the workshops that are most relevant to the professional development needs of their instructors. The menu catalogs the workshops according to the key STARTALK themes that they ...

These resources were created in 2014 for STARTALK through our Infrastructure Grant program. They are designed to fulfill critical needs in the world language community and are freely accessible to all language teachers. Classroom Language Observation Chec ...

This Wikispace classroom was designed to provide online support to STARTALK’s workshop on Performance Assessment-Based Instruction for Hindi and Urdu teachers held at Columbia University in March 2016 and is now public for other trainers to use. The Wikis ...

May 6–7, 2016 • Minneapolis, MN The contents of these presentations are the intellectual property of the respective authors. By reposting it here, the NFLC is neither claiming ownership of the content nor responsibility for the ideas expressed therein. Pr ...

Welcome to the STARTALK Multimedia Teacher Workshop Collection. This collection of twelve on-line, multimedia workshops was developed by staff of STARTALK-funded teacher preparation programs to enable teachers who cannot participate in on site STARTALK pr ...

All program directors are required to request and administer the completion of online consent forms from participants. Programs should request that all participants (or their parents) complete online consent forms. STARTALK Central at the University of Ma ...

May 8–9, 2016 • Denver, CO The contents of these presentations are the intellectual property of the respective authors. By reposting it here, the NFLC is neither claiming ownership of the content nor responsibility for the ideas expressed therein. Downlo ...

The Professional Learning Module for Instructional Leads is a hybrid set of resources, activities and structured procedures that can be used to enhance, extend, and build the capacity of STARTALK Instructional Leads prior to conducting teacher professiona ...

TeacherFolio is a set of tools that can be used for teacher development in teacher and student programs. The tools are designed to allow teachers to document the work that they are doing so that it can be used for purposes beyond STARTALK. Individual teac ...

These resources were created in 2016 for STARTALK through our Infrastructure Grant program. They are designed to fulfill critical needs in the world language community and are freely accessible to all language teachers. NOVA STARTALK e-Tower The NOVASTART ...

The STARTALK Curriculum process is being updated for 2018 and new support documents will be made available in the coming weeks. Please note the materials below reflect the 2017 curriculum process and should not be used for 2018 planning. STARTALK Curricul ...

This is a collection of Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) conducted by ACTFL certified testers demonstrating student performance at the different proficiency levels. To use these videos, teachers should read the Urdu Proficiency Guidelines and analyze th ...

This is a collection of Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) conducted by ACTFL certified testers demonstrating student performance at the different proficiency levels. To use these videos, teachers should read the Hindi Proficiency Guidelines and analyze t ...

About STARTALK

STARTALK is a project funded by the National Security Agency and administered by the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. STARTALK’s mission is to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical-need foreign languages, with programs for students (K-16) and teachers. MORE